Volkswagen will lastly take its psychedelic camouflage wrap off the manufacturing model of the ID Buzz on Wednesday, March 9, giving keen customers their first undisguised have a look at the retro-styled electrical van.

VW provided a number of reviewers an opportunity to briefly drive prototypes of the short-wheelbase, two-row variations in Europe final month. That automobile, which seats 5, will go on sale in Europe this 12 months. A cargo model may even experience on the brief wheelbase.

European vans can be geared up with an 82-kilowatt-hour lithium ion battery mated to a single 201-hp electrical motor built-in into the rear axle. The highest velocity is electronically restricted at 145 kph (90 mph), VW says.

U.S. VW sellers will start taking orders for a longer-wheelbase model — presumably with a bigger battery to associate with three rows of seating — this 12 months for deliveries set to start in early 2024. Each pricing and vary for the U.S. stay below wraps.

The production-intent prototype pushed by reviewers is bigger than the ID Buzz idea first proven on the 2017 Detroit auto present. It additionally eschews the damaging forward-cab seating place of the unique Microbus — the place the seats are positioned forward of the entrance wheels — for extra conventional, if elevated, entrance seating, reviewers mentioned. And in a throwback to the unique Microbus, reviewers had been advised {that a} camper model is within the works.

VW Group of America CEO Scott Keogh mentioned this 12 months that the U.S. model of the ID Buzz can be imported initially from Germany, as he anticipated annual U.S. quantity under 100,000.